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-rw-r--r-- | lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt | 38 |
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diff --git a/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt b/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt index 5cccfa8..1a5d904 100644 --- a/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt +++ b/lib/Target/X86/README-SSE.txt @@ -835,3 +835,41 @@ LLVM should be able to generate the same thing as gcc. This looks like it is just a matter of matching (scalar_to_vector (load x)) to movd. //===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// + +LLVM currently generates stack realignment code, when it is not necessary +needed. The problem is that we need to know about stack alignment too early, +before RA runs. + +At that point we don't know, whether there will be vector spill, or not. +Stack realignment logic is overly conservative here, but otherwise we can +produce unaligned loads/stores. + +Fixing this will require some huge RA changes. + +Testcase: +#include <emmintrin.h> + +typedef short vSInt16 __attribute__ ((__vector_size__ (16))); + +static const vSInt16 a = {- 22725, - 12873, - 22725, - 12873, - 22725, - 12873, +- 22725, - 12873};; + +vSInt16 madd(vSInt16 b) +{ + return _mm_madd_epi16(a, b); +} + +Generated code (x86-32, linux): +madd: + pushl %ebp + movl %esp, %ebp + andl $-16, %esp + movaps .LCPI1_0, %xmm1 + pmaddwd %xmm1, %xmm0 + movl %ebp, %esp + popl %ebp + ret + +//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===// + + |